Al Midan is the organ of the CPS. It was established in 1954 as the official publication of the Anti-Imperialist Front. The paper was banned during General Abboud’s rule (1958-1964), resumed publication in 1964 but was banned again together with the CPS in 1965. It returned to print during the first two years of Numeiri’s rule and was banned in 1971 to return only in 1985. It was shutdown in 1989 with the advent of President Al Bashir’s regime. During these extended periods of censorship, the paper was clandestinely published and circulated among members of the CPS and its sympathizers. Al Midan resumed publication in 2007. It is largely read by followers of the CPS and a predominantly urban constituency. The paper agitates aggressively against the NCP regime and is regularly confiscated by the security authorities. Madiha Abdalla became the editor-in-chief of Al Midan following the death of its veteran editor, Al Tijani Al Tayeb, in November 2011. She had worked for Al Midan prior to the 1989 coup and then for Al Ayaam until she was picked by the CPS to succeed Tijani Al Tayeb.

Monday 3 June 2013June 2, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) has banned al-Midan newspaper that is the mouthpiece of the Sudanese Communist Party’s (SCP) in the latest sign of continued crackdown by authorities on the (...)

Saturday 14 January 2012January 14, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese security service yesterday suspended the publication of an independent newspaper and closed its office after it published statements this week favourable to the former leader of the Darfur rebels - (...)

Monday 19 March 2012March 18, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese security authorities on Sunday seized for the third day in a row the entire print-run of Al-Midan newspaper, the latest assault on freedom of press in the east African country.
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Wednesday 16 May 2012May 16, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The ordeal of Sudanese journalist Faisal Mohamed Salih continued on Tuesday when he was re-arrested and arraigned before the state security court on the charge of “disobeying law men.” FILE PHOTO - Sudanese (...)

Monday 12 November 2012November 11, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The leader of Sudan’s mainstream opposition coalition National Consensus Forces (NCF), Farouq Abu Issa, has said that the government will likely find itself with no option but to implement recommendations (...)

Holding accountable those enabling genocide in Sudan2016-12-05 05:30:49
Eric Reeves
As grim genocide by attrition in Darfur is set to enter its fifteenth year, as Khartoum’s claim of a purely nominal “cease-fire” in South Kordofan is belied by repeated reports of Sudan (...)